Articles with category: Article
Tools about host responsibility and drugs in bars
Imagine you’re managing a bar, and someone tells you they just saw a guy selling MDMA in the bathroom. What do you do?
Mar 1 2019
Stoned at the wheel: is there a problem?
Can roadside testing detect impaired drivers? Naomi Arnold looks at the evidence.
You can't put fires out with gasoline
Words can convey more than their semantic meaning. Journalist Chloe Ann-King shares her reaction to what she reads and hears in the media and health care sectors.
Mar 1 2019
Synthetic cannabinoids - too many unknowns
Nathan Brown reports on a Drug Foundation-led information gathering and sharing exercise aimed at reducing harm from synthetic cannabinoids.
Mental Health Inquiry: Change of direction needed
The Mental Health and Addictions Inquiry signalled a major direction change but provided no navigation rules. Who should plot the new course?
The truth we all need to hear
Korero Pono JustSpeak exhibition: Even the shortest prison sentence can be a life sentence for some.
Introducing He Korowai Aroha, Health Not Handcuffs
A new movement called Health Not Handcuffs has been launched ahead of the cannabis referendum, calling for drug laws that give people a hand up instead of a lock up
Legalisation: the chance to right wrongs
NZ has a golden opportunity to right many of the wrongs caused by cannabis prohibition, says Tess Nicol
Q&A: Jenny Valentish
enny Valentish is a journalist and novelist. Her latest book Woman of Substances is part memoir and part investigation into the relationship between gender, trauma and addiction
Living Sober 3.0
Changes afoot for Living Sober community
Needle exchanges at 30: Looking back, moving forward
New Zealand Needle Exchange Executive Director Kathryn Leafe takes us back to the early days of needle exchange in New Zealand, detailing how far we’ve come, and what’s still left to do.
Once an addict always an addict, right?
Chloe King uses her own addiction and recovery experience to issue a forthright challenge to some of the common ‘armchair diagnosing’ beliefs and terminology we may have inherited from AA.